[apologies if you've already seen this call elsewhere...] CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009) In conjunction with IUI 2009 Sanibel Island, Florida 8th February 2009 http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/ OBJECTIVES The advent of the Social Web (Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web has resulted in even more data created, published and consumed by users. This vast amount of data is available in various formats (text, image, video, etc.), can be presented on different platforms, and most importantly, contains linkages between different entities on the Web. The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources. However, the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, and Personal Information Management, to discuss latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web. In addition, the workshop also serves as an opportunity for researchers to gain feedback on their work as well as to identify potential collaborations with their peers. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Visual interfaces supporting exploration and/or navigation of unstructured or structured data on the Web * Visualizing and interacting with semi-structured/linked data on the Semantic Web or the Social Semantic Desktop * Ontology-based visualization of & interaction with collections of data * Novel paradigms to interact with textual data, photos, music, videos on mobile devices * Lightweight components for casual users to publish/share their own contents on the Web * Real-world use cases * Lessons learned from intelligent interfaces built to interact with Web-based contents SUBMISSIONS We welcome three types of submissions: * Full papers which should be between 6 and 10 pages. * Short papers and position papers which should be up to 5 pages. * Demo papers - 2 page description with a screenshot of the working prototype or preferrably a link to an online demo. Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared according to the IUI format. Papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Papers can be submitted via the EasyChair system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=vissw2009 IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline: 14th November, 2008 * Notication of acceptance: 7th December, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 14th December, 2008 ORGANIZERS * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway, Ireland * Tom Heath, Talis Information Ltd, UK * VinhTuan Thai, DERI Galway, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be extended) * Lora Aroyo, VU Amsterdam, NL * Chris Bizer, FU Berlin, DE * Duane Degler, Design for Context, US * Alan Dix, University of Lancaster, UK * Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK * Gus Gollings, RMIT, Australia * Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research, AT * Georgi Kobilarov, FU Berlin, DE * Knud Möller, DERI Galway, IE * Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK * Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, NL * Alexandre Passant, DERI Galway, IE * Nadeem Shabir, Talis, UK * Carlo Torniai, Simon Fraser University, CA CONTACT US If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the workshop organizers at: vissw2009 at easychair dot org